Färber*
Konrad Färber, a farmer, and his family settled in the Volga German colony of Bauer on 20 July 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 6.
Konrad Färber and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer in Household No. Br11.
The 1767 census records that Konrad Färber came from the German village of Kirchberg in the Hessen district.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Färber family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Br11.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 116.
Brent Mai